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Latest Federal & Government Contracting Companies' News Coverage
Hear about the latest product and service offerings from the government contracting industry’s leading providers. The Government Technology News section highlights developments in aerospace, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, defense, C4ISR, cloud, hypersonics, and space.
Airbus‘ defense and space division has partnered with Mercury Systems to study, develop, demonstrate, verify and certify technologies for autonomous flights. The two companies said Tuesday they will jointly work on autonomous and flight control programs with a focus on algorithms and the environments where the systems will operate. Airbus and Mercury have signed a […] More
NASA has selected Honeybee Robotics and mPower Technology to jointly design a space solar power system in support of the space agency’s Vertical Solar Array Technology initiative aimed at helping enable long-term lunar surface operations. Altadena, California-based Honeybee Robotics and Albuquerque, New Mexico-headquartered mPower will work on the Lunar Array Mast and Power System concept […] More
The U.S. Navy has surpassed its goal of completing 8,000 aircraft launches and recoveries with General Atomics-built systems for the post-delivery test and trial phase of USS Gerald R. Ford carrier without causing safety incidents. General Atomics said Monday its Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System and Advanced Arresting Gear beat the military branch’s target for cats […] More
Forcepoint announced on Tuesday that the company has appointed Peter Brant as senior vice president of North America Sales and Myles Bray as SVP of EMEA Sales. Brant and Bray will bring their extensive experience in enabling enterprises to adopt cloud-delivered security alongside hybrid technology investments. The new senior VPs will lead the company’s customer-first […] More
The Internal Revenue Service seeks market information on techniques that could help digital forensics personnel assess and investigate cryptowallets, physical devices that store cryptocurrency keys. IRS said Thursday in a SAM.gov notice its digital forensics unit requires approaches to reverse-engineer hardware, analyze software and firmware, identify integrated circuits and deconstruct printed circuit boards found in […] More
Dave Levy, vice president of U.S. government, nonprofit and healthcare businesses at Amazon Web Services, wrote in a blog post published Monday that cloud adoption through the Technology Modernization Fund could help government agencies improve cybersecurity, update high-priority systems, reduce costs and enhance the delivery of services to citizens. Levy, a 2021 Wash100 Award winner, […] More
Paul Lemmo, president of Sikorsky, told Defense News in an interview published Monday about his near-term priorities as head of the Lockheed Martin subsidiary and one of those is transitioning the Combat Rescue Helicopter and CH-53K programs into the production phase. “Both of them are going into [initial operational test and evaluation] IOT&E and we’re […] More
CloudLinux‘s newly formed enterprise services business is providing operating system support to a United Launch Alliance-built rocket that sent a missile detection and early warning satellite for the U.S. Space Force into orbit. The company said Monday its TuxCare brand performs automated patches to help secure computing systems of ULA’s Atlas V launch vehicle. An […] More
The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) announced Monday that it has completed the integration of beta.SAM.gov and SAM.gov. The updated SAM.gov is now the system used to register to do business with the federal government, search for contract opportunities, find wage determinations and more. The new website is intended to make it easier for small […] More
Hypori‘s approach to helping organizations protect sensitive information for bring-your-own-device programs won an award from Cyber Defense Magazine. The company said Monday its “Secure Streaming Operating System as a Service” was selected as the BYOD Cutting Edge award winner at the Cyber Defense Global InfoSec Awards ceremony during the 2021 RSA Conference. SSOSaaS is intended […] More
Palantir Technologies announced on Monday that it has secured a firm-fixed-price contract worth approximately $32.5 million to support the U.S Space Force (USSF) and the U.S. Air Force (USAF) by providing its software to the critical missions of the Department of the Air Force (DAF), Space and Missile Systems Center’s Cross-Mission Ground and Communications Enterprise […] More
Aevum has patented a technology that would allow a large unmanned aircraft system to reconfigure between different modes depending on mission needs, C4ISRnet reported Friday. The Ravn X drone is equipped with a new modular technology that allows it to assume modes for different types of uses: transporting smaller drones, delivering air cargo, supporting intelligence […] More
